AESIR I forgot how to breathe, and that wasn’t an exaggeration. I felt the moment my lungs constricted, and my heart slammed to a sudden halt. Every nerve in my body seized for a few seconds and then released with a snap that had me dragging in a lungful of air. The sight of her made me feel as though I had been submerged for a few seconds, and now I needed to learn to breathe. The woman standing several feet away from me, staring back at me now, wasn’t the same scrawny omega from seven years ago. It was her, sure, same face, same features, but she looked… Her skin caught the moonlight first. She was tan, had always been tan, but there was a warmth to her skin now that wasn’t there years ago, and a faint pink hue that glowed beneath her skin. It was impossible to look away, the way h

